Are you ready to go deep with committed steps toward becoming fluent in the language of a place? Are you ready to claim where you're from, and begin to belong here?

Becoming a competent naturalist, tracker and wholehearted member and steward of a community is no small thing. We can help you walk a powerful path with intentions, goals and questions that truly serve life.

How can I learn to read Nature more fully, to let Nature tell its story, and to feel a part of its story, day to day? What adventures call me out on the land? What inside me is touched and fulfilled by my time in Nature?

With this precious opportunity to fully immerse in the Mono Basin, you will:

Learn to recognize track and sign left by local wildlife such as bears and kangaroo rats, foxes and beavers

Expand your senses and deepen awareness of the lives and ecology of the eastern Sierra

Build confidence in your interpretations using tools such as regional species lists, baseline gaits, tracking journals & sketches, ecological and behavioral predictions, plaster casts and track traps, map study, all of your senses all at once, curiosity and articulate questions

Engage deeply with and learn from individual animals and their trails, lacks, larders, behaviors and interconnectedness

Build community and touch your deeper self in the vast, beautiful space of Mono Basin

Join us to build your skills and connections in celebration of this gift of life!Camping under the stars, rising with the sun, soaking in hot springs, each day includes instruction, tracking in the field and wild adventure as well as shared community meals and fireside stories.

Instructors Scott and John have trained intensively with tracking mentor Jon Young and are certified in Track & Sign Interpretation by senior tracker Mark Elbroch. For them, tracking is a holistic journey that engages imagination and focuses study most effectively in community. Please join us! Feel free to contact us for more information:

"I now have a renewed sense of confidence in my ability as a tracker. With Scott’s mentoring I was able to move through 'trailing walls' that previously would have discouraged me. Feeling grateful and satisfied." -MB of Sebastopol, CA

Many cultures the world over tell of a time when all beings spoke one language—humans, animals, plants, stones. How once, words were like magic, part of the weft of the living land.​Learning the art and science of animal tracking is a powerful doorway back into an understanding of the “language” of the wider (and wilder) world. While Scott guides us through this doorway, opening our senses and our minds to the patterns of animal lives on the winter Sierra land, Sylvia will offer a series of writing exercises, and an embodied exploration of the landscapes of folklore and myth, to help us plumb our inner worlds and reinvigorate a poetic language of being.

With this precious opportunity to fully immerse in the Winter Sierra, you will:

Learn to recognize track and sign left by local wildlife such as bears and martens, foxes and beavers

Expand your senses and deepen awareness of the lives and ecology of the northern Sierra

Build confidence in your interpretations using tools such as regional species lists, baseline gaits, tracking journals & sketches, ecological and behavioral predictions, plaster casts and camera traps, map study, all of your senses all at once, curiosity and articulate questions

Engage deeply with and learn from individual animals and their trails, lacks, larders, behaviors and interconnectedness

Each night, listen to timeless wild tales and be guided in your own poetic craft with author and artistSylvia Linsteadt

Build community and touch your deeper self in the vast, beautiful space of Lake Tahoe

Join us to build your skills and connections in celebration of this gift of life!Each day includes holistic lessons in tracking wildlife, connection practices for wellness and wild adventures as well as shared community meals, fireside stories and a very comfortable lakeside house on the north shore then cozy wilderness hut on the ridge.

Scott Davidson is a wildlife ecologist and deep nature guide who cultivates an ecology of belonging through a unique weaving of wildlife tracking, habitat tending and questing in community. He has trained intensively with tracking mentor Jon Young and is certified in Track & Sign Interpretation by senior tracker Mark Elbroch. For him, tracking is a holistic journey that engages imagination and focuses study most effectively in community.

Sylvia Linsteadt is a writer whose work is devoted to broadening our human stories to include the voices, perspectives and dreams of the more-than-human world. Her nonfiction has been published by Heyday, and her first novel, Tatterdemalion, is forthcoming with Unbound in May. She is also a certified tracker, trained by Scott Davidson and John Brossard on the beloved coastal sands of Point Reyes. For more information, please visit Sylvia at www.SylviaLinsteadt.com/about.